Yves Saint Laurent

What the Yves Saint Laurent range is made of

Across the 50 Yves Saint Laurent fragrances Zenyra has mapped, the materials that recur most are vanilla (42%), patchouli (28%), bergamot (26%). No single note dominates, which is itself a choice — this is a house that works across a palette rather than around a signature material.

On Zenyra's five axes the house reads smoother than the catalogue as a whole: texture averages 0.32 against 0.48 across all mapped fragrances. That is a wide margin, and it is the clearest thing the data says about this house.

One idea, or many

Yves Saint Laurent covers ground. The average spread across its range is 0.143 — wide enough that liking one Yves Saint Laurent fragrance tells you comparatively little about the rest. Houses like this reward exploring the catalogue rather than trusting the name.

The median release year across the mapped range is 2012.

Where Yves Saint Laurent sits